Charlie Vlk wrote: Way back when, the Master Car Builders designed a sample typeface of "standard Roman letters" which was reproduced for years thereafter in sample form in Cycs and in the ARA

The MCB/ARA/AAR Standards and Recommended Practices by themselves do little to assist with accurate freight car lettering; interchange <requirements> are something different. However, I am finding

Charlie, Good luck on that one. So far I have two different commercial RR Roman fonts plus two more fonts that I drew up in order to be able match various different prototype fonts. So now I can

Eric- I am looking for the actual set of lettering alphabet / punctuation / numbers not placement on cars. Normally they are dimensioned differently for small to large lettering. I’ve got sets

Colors are commonly specified by CMYK (percentages 0 to 100 of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) or RGB ( 0 to 255 value of Red, Green, Blue with the intensity varying from none (0) to full (255). All

Go to a high end camera store (one that sells darkroom supplies) and they will have it. You can also probably buy it on line from B&H Photo in NY. That is exactly what I use. Only need very little.

The rebuilds had Nailable Steel Floors - although I don't know whetherthat was a change. Also, all of my photos (I have 6 for these cars) appear to show Mortonrunning boards - no good views of the

Friends, In 1958, the Norfolk Southern rebuilt 100 of its 1942 Magor-built 25500-25752 series boxcars (XM3). These became series 28000-28236, and reclassed them as XM6. The

SMMW’s recently-released coupler boxes have been well-received so I thought a quick reminder is appropriate to reach those who may not know about ‘em. Visit my web page for more info, then

I’d really like a copy of that material. Being a resin builder, getting decals right is an issue. J. Stephen Sandifer

Hello Steam Era Modelers: We are pleased to announce that Westerfield Models has a new Kit available: Our newest HO Kit release is the #12800 Series B-50-15 single sheathed box car with steel

I’ve used the Testors solution and it seemed to do what it needed to do. I’ve not used it on Champ decals, however, just on Ted Culotta’s decals. Schuyler Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018

With the discussion recently about the Southern Pacific B-50-15 and -16 box cars on several lists, I thought I would share some market intelligence. The SP B-50-15 and -16 cars, based upon the ARA

Yahbut . . . That was discussed at CCB ’18 and it was decided to move it one week later than the “traditional” first full weekend. Schuyler Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 5:05 AM To:

Steve Sandifer wrote: Two points, Steve. First, I don't think much if any lettering was a "federal" requirement, though in years subsequent to this list there were certain federally required

I still have a little bit left, don't know what I will do when I run out. Although somebody gave me three bottles of Testors Decal Setting solution and I did use it once and it seemed to work

Charlie, The link Earl referenced is my file thatwas created to illustrate the lettering changes in the 1920s. I scanned pagesfrom ORERs and combined the images into the two page

Some CB&Q L&P drawings reference them instead of CB&Q alpha and numeric drawings. Thanks Charlie Vlk

Allow me to add: Eric Hansmann posted excerpts from the 1920 and 1926 revisions here: http://hansmanns.org/ARA_lettering_guidelines_1920_+_1927.pdf The 1909 revision can be emphasized as well, as that

Stephen Sandifer asked: The Master Car Builder's Association, a voluntary trade group, issued Recommended Practices and Standards for various aspects of lettering, marking, and stenciling beginning